Behavioral and Neural Representations of Object Size.

The geometry of the world determines how an active observer can move and interact with different objects and scenes. How does the physical size of an object influence visual experience with that object? Does this affect the representation of objects of different sizes in the brain? Similarly, how is the size (or volume) of a scene represented?

Konkle & Oliva. A real-world size organization of of object responses in occipito-temporal cortex. Neuron, in press.

Konkle & Oliva. A Familiar Size Stroop Effect: Real-world size is an automatic property of object representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press.

Konkle & Oliva. Canonical visual size for real-world objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011.

Park*, Konkle*, & Oliva (in preparation). Neural representation of the size of space and the amount of clutter in a scene.

Konkle & Oliva. Normative representation of objects: Evidence for an ecological bias in perception and memory. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society, 2007.

Memory Capacity and Experience.

How does experience with objects shape our ability to remember them? How does conceptual structure of object and scene categories contribute to long-term memory for objects and scenes?


Konkle, Brady, Alvarez, & Oliva. Conceptual knowledge supports perceptual detail in visual long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010.

Konkle, Brady, Alvarez, & Oliva. Scene memory is more detailed than you think: the role of scene categories in visual long-term memory. Psychological Science, 2010.

Brady, Konkle, Alvarez, & Oliva. Visual long-term memory has a massive capacity for object details. PNAS 2008. press release | demo

Brady, Konkle, Oliva, & Alvarez. Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2009.

Brady, Konkle, & Alvarez. Compression in visual short-term memory: using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009.


Review:
Brady, Konkle, & Alvarez. A review of visual memory capacity: Beyond individual items and toward structured representations. Journal of Vision, 2011.

Motion Processing across Modalities.

Are the neural representations of visual and tactile motion independent or shared? How does adaptation modify the neural system? What do multimodal responses in the brain reveal about neural information processing? What is the relationship between adaptation and encoding?


Konkle, Wang, Hayward, & Moore. Motion Aftereffects Transfer Between Touch and Vision. Current Biology 2009. press release | demo

Konkle & Moore. What can crossmodal aftereffects reveal about neural representation and dynamics? Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2009.

Carter, Konkle, Wang, Hayward, & Moore. Tactile Rivalry Demonstrated with an Ambiguous Apparent-Motion Quartet. Current Biology, 2008. press release | demo

Bedny, Konkle, Pelphrey, Saxe, Pascual-Leone. Sensitive period for a vision-dominated response in human MT/MST. Current Biology, 2010.